Inefficiencies That Drive You Nuts
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I once knew a guy that owned and ran a donation business, made a very good living off it in Des Moines, right west of the fair grounds. Was set up with the veterans of foreign wars or some outfit like that. He told him it was like printing money.
Cause they are hoping your wife would come in to see if it’s worth opening that folder of private pictures. Thing is, they’re going to open it either way.
Walgreens, specifically the one in Ames by the mall.
No matter what time my prescription gets sent in, no matter how long I wait to get it, it is not ready when I go to pick it up. I even call in to get an ETA and it isn't ready.
I have multiple gripes with them and would love to change pharmacies, but my insurance, while fantastic on everything else, doesn't give me a ton of options in Ames.
No matter what time my prescription gets sent in, no matter how long I wait to get it, it is not ready when I go to pick it up. I even call in to get an ETA and it isn't ready.
I have multiple gripes with them and would love to change pharmacies, but my insurance, while fantastic on everything else, doesn't give me a ton of options in Ames.
Had to get a med refilled. Log story short is my doctor was on medical leave and my renewal slipped through the cracks at my doctors office. But they finally send it to the pharmacy, 2 days after I had run out.
Go to the pharmacy the next day to find out the med won’t arrive until tomorrow. They asked if that was ok. I said I have been out for a few days already. They said, ok… well, we have enough in stock so give us 15 minutes
???? Why didn’t they just use the ones they already had?
Go to the pharmacy the next day to find out the med won’t arrive until tomorrow. They asked if that was ok. I said I have been out for a few days already. They said, ok… well, we have enough in stock so give us 15 minutes
???? Why didn’t they just use the ones they already had?
Self checkout. Give me ALDI's manual / human cashier - and lightning FAST - checkout. Sadly, they too are moving away from it. Now, you'll have no choice but to wait at slower self-checkout as 5% or so of the groceries on the belt in front of you are stolen, and then good old honest you get to pay a built-in 5% more for your stuff so the grocer comes out whole.
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Maybe they took some out of a prescription they had already filled for another customer before your order came in so they made another customer wait for the new shipment instead of you.
Speaking of prescriptions.
During COVID they allowed everyone to receive 90 day prescriptions to limit human interactions.
They should always give you the option of 90 days. Saves time going to pick up and wait. Saves fuel, reduces traffic. Fortunately my insurance lets me get 90 days. Many only allow 30 days at a time.
I assume the reason they don't is because certain drugs are only a trial to see if they are effective so if you get 90 days worth it's a waste. Or if you can tolerate the med. Same if you're old and might die with 80 doses left.
What they could do is only give you 30 days for the first 3 or 6 months - then if you're going to keep taking it for the foreseeable future, allow you to go to 90 days from then on.
(Also, I always thought it was weird that you get 90 day's prescription with 3 refills. That equals 360 days. That leaves you 5 or 6 doses short for the year. Maybe they assume people will forget to take their meds 5 days each year.)
Ask your doc specifically to try to submit 90 day prescriptions I've had 90 days for maintenance meds for 15 years. Depends on your insurance though too.
Our insurance offers 90 days for the mail delivery. I assumed they restricted the 90 days at the pharmacy to encourage the mail program and cut out the middle man.
Hy Vee's card readers on self checkout make you press card even after your card is inserted. Every where else it just reads the card once you put it in. Again, a very, very minor inconvenience but I forget every time, put my card it, it declines it because I put it in to early and I have to take it out and start over after pressing "card".
Football traffic would flow so much easier if they closed down some of the two way streets for an hour after the game and forced everyone to exit away from the stadium. GA and vet med parking all most go east over to Duff, parking to the West of the stadium and South must go West on Mortesen out to S. Dakota and get on 30 there. They need to stop allowing people leaving the games to cut across university to get to the GA lots. That is where they should have built the bridge or add another one there to make those people go over the road and stop crossing on it.
My wife loves walgreens why I do not know. They are essentially ALL like what you mention. I refuse to use them.
At least Aldi has those scanner guns so you don't have to take everything out of the cart. Walmart has the scanner guns. Why the heck would Costco, a store that sells tons of big, bulky items, not have scanner guns at their self-checkout?
Every other vendor I've used digital tickets for lets me add all tickets to my Google wallet at once. EXCEPT for Iowa State. Drives me crazy
